Question

I feel like I’m missing something pretty basic, but I can’t seem to figure it out, either.

When doing the following spec:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "/mymodel/show.html.erb" do
  before(:each) do
    @mymodel = Factory(:mymodel)
    @user = Factory(:user)
    assign(:web_tip, @mymodel)
    assign(:current_user, @user)
  end

  it "renders attributes in <p>" do
    render
    rendered.should have_text(/somevalue/)
  end
end

I get an error that the local variable current_user is undefined (the view’s layout wants to call it to show the current login status).

I’m on Rails 3, Rspec 2.6.4, and thought I was following the current docs correctly.

Answer 1

Well, I never figured out how to get authlogic to work with this, so I monkeypatched a current_user method on the tests themselves to get it to work.

def current_user
   Factory(:user)
end

Worked, though I’d still award an “answer” if someone can help me to di the right way.